Oracle has announced two new Java products for embedded systems, with the aim of getting the object-oriented language running on as wide a range of devices as possible, including ones with very limited resources.
Tuesday's new addition to the database giant's Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) lineup, Oracle Java ME …

Re: Playing catch-up?

Re: Playing catch-up?

How is it playing catch up when they've been shipping Java ME on feature phones for over a decade? This seems like little more than a name change, they are just marketing the latest version to the embedded folks, even though it's been used for such purposes since long ago.

Not on Adama's ship

Actually that's a bit pointless

There is virtually no market for 130 kByte RAM embedded systems. Most are well below 16 kByte RAM and 16 MByte RAM is not much more expensive than let's say 256 kBytes of RAM. In both cases you would need to add more external RAM which is expensive no matter how much you add.

130k of RAM??!?

The 350k of ROM/Flash is a fairly tall order though there are several lines of ARM based microcontroller that top out at 512k. But 130k of onboard RAM? That means SRAM in microcontroller land and that's extremely costly in terms of die area. Even devices with a not-so-lowly 64k or RAM are in the 10s of dollars per unit which makes them dearer than building a 'proper computer' with 100s of megabytes of discrete SDRAM.

Re: 130k of RAM??!?

Methinks Larry needs a new Cloudy Field of Special Operations to Ensure the Deserved Lead

And for those who fully expect a doughnut server to accompany and soak up a morning coffee and give some purpose to Java and offer excitement and meaningful engagement to Beta Competent IT Programmers ….. <quote>He also taunts Larry Ellison, writing that he hopes news of the new flaw does not spoil his morning coffee.", …. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/26/gowdiak_claims_new_java_flaw/</quote> …… here is what is available, but rather exclusively of course, because of the nature of what IT can do, you understand.

For Operating Systems Drivers, who would also be acting as if Kernel Colonels and HyperRadioProActively, and are heavily/deeply into JSON for ARGonauts is there Jave MEME, Micro Edition Mission Embedded ….. for those micro-macro controllers of human reality to virtual machine systems for Remote Reality Control of Vital and Virile and Viral Virtual Machine Environments.

Thus are New Orderly World stages set and provisioned with already, all ready, ready-made Future Infrastructures and IMagiNative Novel Content.

And the doughnut server would leave you with this tasty morsel to ponder and parse into intelligence channels and underground tunnels of information exchange which spin for enrichment, for the West is intellectually bankrupt and naked short selling nothing of value, whilst the East is as an uncut jewel of infinite bounty …… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magi …… and still untapped and ready for harvesting and reseeding.